article thumbnail

What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Product Owners: How to get Your Development Team to Love you was a post from Daniel Elizalde with some relationship advice, product management style, via a ProductTank presentation from former Apple Product Manager and industry veteran Ron Lichty. How do product owners get their development teams to love them?

article thumbnail

Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. For a more esoteric category, like Github, it’s helpful to bring on some prominent Open Source projects and key developers. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. Even when wait times can’t be reduced with better performance, you can still use psychology by turning waits into sources of entertainment with animations, surprises, or even humor. Gamification is not just for games and entertainment-focused apps.

article thumbnail

The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments , whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue.

article thumbnail

The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments , whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue.